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summer_jackel"You," I said calmly to the young tarantula
who clung lightly to the inside top of a plastic box
on my bedroom dresser, "are Brachypelma vagans.
You do not climb, are not even semi-arboreal,
but lay quietly in close burrows where you dwell.
You ought to dig."
Do you think, laughed the spiderling,
looking at me with its bright old eyes,
That you know better how to be a spider than I?
It is not so simple.
who clung lightly to the inside top of a plastic box
on my bedroom dresser, "are Brachypelma vagans.
You do not climb, are not even semi-arboreal,
but lay quietly in close burrows where you dwell.
You ought to dig."
Do you think, laughed the spiderling,
looking at me with its bright old eyes,
That you know better how to be a spider than I?
It is not so simple.
